Geostrategy-Direct A Taiwanese court on Sept. 15 sentenced a former Chinese student to 14 months in prison for attempting to actively recruit Taiwan’s diplomats as Chinese spies. Zhou Hongxu, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A visit this summer by Iraqi Shi’ite leader Muqtada al-Sadr to Saudi Arabia created an uproar in Iran. Kayhan newspaper, the mouthpiece of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s long-term, high priority drive for superiority in space weapons is generating concern at the Pentagon under the new administration. China aims to deny the U.S. access to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is disputing charges by Israel and the United States that it has been “weak” in its oversight of Iran’s nuclear deal with (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. warplanes in 2017 are dropping ordnance at a sharply-increased pace against Islamic State (ISIS), Taliban and Al Qaida targets in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen. The Trump (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korea has, for the first time, said that it plans to use its nuclear arsenal to carry out electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks. The official communist party newspaper, Rodong (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct With North Korea’s rapid nuclear development and the international community’s failure to impede Pyongyang’s repeated tests, nations in Northeast Asia have been jolted with mass feelings of panic (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A huge haul of intelligence from abandoned laptops and mobile devices from dead Islamic State (ISIS) fighters is further stretching thin already swamped law enforcement agencies in Europe. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct GPS satellite jamming and anti-satellite weapons are an advancing threat to vulnerable United States space assets. China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are testing and exploring ways to destroy U.S. (more…)
